PLANS FOR THE BROCHURE

1800*
III.
PLAN FOR THE BROCHURE:
WHAT IS MARXISM ON THE STATE?
(p. [?])

PRELIMINARY: Theoretical importance and topical relevance of the question.

1. INTRODUCTION.
Citation from *Origin*: pre-class society without the state and class society with the state.
What is the state? (This alone the opportunists and Kautskyans "know"—see pp. 36, 37–58)

2. THE MODERN STATE:
Democratic republic and the stock exchange (Engels in *Origin*)—p. 77.
Armed forces and the military (Engels in *Anti-Dühring!*) Imperial [?]: "[State monopolies and] trusts." State monopolies. (+ Engels on Planlosigkeit** ...)

3. "THE WITHERING AWAY OF THE STATE." This is NOT a critique of "free people's state" (Blindheit***—Engels in *Anti-Dühring*) which they forgot!!
—pp. 38–39.

III = general conclusions. Well-known. As something general, it does not touch upon the question of revolution, of the forms and methods of withering away. Permits opportunistic interpretation:
||"withering away" versus "smash" ||

Compare "withering away" and the citation from *Anti-Dühring*. Panegyric to violent revolution.
[Perhaps] Connect 1–3, as [General theoretical] views of Marxism on the "state"? "Class society and the state" (p. 2)****

* *The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State* [by Engels]. Ed.
** absence of planfulness. Ed.
*** there, loc. cit. Ed.
**** see p. 22. Section a. Ed.
Lenin Collection XXI.